“The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.”

― Tricia Cunningham

“People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance. And while they seem quite eager to feed you their negativity, please remember that sometimes the diet we need to be on is a spiritual and emotional one. Be cautious with what you feed your mind and soul. Fuel yourself with positivity and let that fuel propel you into positive action.”

― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”

― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

“Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!”

― Karl Lagerfeld

“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“I hate France. It's like the whole country's on a diet”

― Gordon Korman, One False Note

“Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?!”

― Erma Bombeck

“No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.”

― Maimonides

“It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.”

― Margaret Mead

“Food is an important part of a balanced diet.”

― Fran Lebowitz

“You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering.”

― Portia de Rossi, Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

“The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley’s favorite things — fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate bars and burgers — and filled instead with fruit and vegetables and the sorts of things that Uncle Vernon called “rabbit food.”

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“If I don't eat junk, I don't gain weight.”

― Paulina Christensen

“He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.”